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Oracle announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld that it has introduced a new cloud offer called Oracle Cloud Free Tier. As the name suggest, it allows you to run a few limited instances in Oracle Cloud for free. I will in this blog show how you can use the free tier to setup a MySQL test instance.

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If you want to read more about Oracle Cloud Free Tier see https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ and the FAQ at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq.html.

The first step is to sign up for the cloud service which you do by opening …

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First of all, thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at the recent Oracle OpenWorld and Code One in San Francisco. It was a great privilege to be allowed to make a number of presentations.

All of the workbooks and scripts from the hands-on labs (HOL) and the slides from the talks have been made available at OpenWorld’s and Code One’s session catalogues. You can download the files by using the OpenWorld catalog searching for my name or the session number (see below). Click on the download icon for each of the presentations you are interested in.

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Oracle MySQL Support will this year again take part in the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Additionally, we will present at the developer focused Code One that is held at the same time. Oracle OpenWorld and Code One 2018 takes place at the Moscone Center and nearby hotels in San Francisco on Monday 22 October to Thursday 25 October.

MySQL Support will be represented by Lig Isler-turmelle and myself (Jesper Wisborg Krogh), and we will organize three hands-on labs (HOL) in Oracle OpenWorld, two talks in Code One, and two mini-briefings at the …

Via Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager:

MySQL Central is truly a MySQL Community show. This year there are five tracks and the majority of the sessions in all the tracks except Performance and Scalability had many more submissions from the MySQL Community than from Oracle/MySQL.

This is impressive. There are about 200 submissions, 50 slots, a 1/4 chance of a talk getting in, and if we follow this logic we will see that MySQL Central @ OpenWorld will truly be a community event (in previous years, majority of the talks came from the MySQL team at Oracle). I can’t wait to see the final program, but as an attendee to the past two MySQL Connect events, I am looking forward to seeing this event grow and be a part of the main program (i.e. not the weekend before).

As …

With Oracle OpenWorld just around the corner & MySQL Connect already underway I can’t believe yet another year has passed.  This is my third OOW and I must have a following as folks are already reaching out to me on twitter @pythiansimmons (log buffer lady seems to be a handle I can’t seem to shake). [...]

Isn’t that that time of the year again? Yes, it is — it’s time for our annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup and of course Oracle is piggybacking OpenWorld with the meetup again! ;) What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2011 When: Wed, 5-Oct-2011, 5:00pm Where: Main Dining Room, Jillian’s Billiards @ Metreon, 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA [...]

Pythian is pleased to announce our speaking schedule at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld 2011, October 2-6, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.

We’re excited to be joined by our customers Western Union, and Worldwide Technologies (WWT) as we present real-world experiences and project success. If you’re attending, don’t miss the chance to hear our team of experts. Bring your toughest questions to be answered as they relate to any of the subjects below.

• Follow Pythian on LinkedIn for up to date OOW info
• Schedule a meeting with Pythian at OOW to discuss your database …

It’s a busy summer at Pythian, with our continuing wave of speaking sessions at upcoming community and regional industry events.

Coming to a city near you, watch for Pythian presenting hot Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database topics:

IN CANADA:

Oracle Technology Days – Montreal
August 9, 2011 – 8:30am – 1pm, Hilton Montreal Bonaventure

• 11:00 am – Join Marc Fielding for Mixed Workload Management for Oracle Exadata
• More Pythian Oracle Exadata resources
• View the Evite
• Register/Inscrire

Oracle Technology Days – Toronto
August 25, …

Oracle OpenWorld 2011 will be held October 2-6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and the Call for Papers is now Open!

MySQL will have excellent visibility with a dedicated track under the database stream.

Details and submission guidelines are available on the Oracle OpenWorld Call for Papers web site. The Call for Paper will end on Sunday March 27. Invited speakers will receive a free OpenWorld full conference pass. Go ahead and submit now! 

Registration for Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is also open. Super Saver Registration, which offers the deepest discount on the regular conference price, ends April 1, 2011.

Oracle OpenWorld 2011 will be held October 2-6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and the Call for Papers is now Open!

MySQL will have excellent visibility with a dedicated track under the database stream.

Details and submission guidelines are available on the Oracle OpenWorld Call for Papers web site. The Call for Paper will end on Sunday March 27. Invited speakers will receive a free OpenWorld full conference pass. Go ahead and submit now! 

Registration for Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is also open. Super Saver Registration, which" offers the deepest discount on the regular conference price, ends April 1, 2011.